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Silver Pond was named in honor of James Wesley Silver (1907-88), a history professor from 1936 to 1964, an intellectually stimulating teacher, department chair from 1946 to 1957, and president of the Southern Historical Ass'n from 1963 to 1964. Author of the best-selling “Mississippi: The Closed Society” (1964), Dr. Silver indicted repression in his adopted state. A defender of free speech, academic freedom, and progressive values, he was reviled by many White segregationists in the state. Under pressure he left the university in 1964 and taught at the University of Notre Dame and University of South Florida. Southeast of this site stood Faculty House 6, long-time home of the Silver family.
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